Tag: SpecifiedBy

Some 13 years ago, when I was at construction collaboration technology provider BIW Technologies (today Conject), the company formed a partnership with TSO (The Stationery Office, the privatised enterprise that was formerly Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, HMSO) to provide online access to building regulations information. At the time, as a tax-payer, I remember thinking that …

Since November 2012, I’ve been tracking the early development of construction product specification start-up SpecifiedBy, which CEO Darren Lester launched in private Beta mode at Ecobuild in March (in the meantime, he also launched a Twitter-based specification service, @SocialSpec). This week SpecifiedBy is being launched in public Beta mode. Edinburgh, UK-based SpecifiedBy aims to take …

The BIM bandwagon is not slowing down. Instead, it appears to be accelerating as we head towards the UK Government’s initial target of “Level 2″ adoption by 2016, and with more specifiers likely to seek BIM information, product manufacturers need to be thinking about how they will respond. There are two elements to content creation …

I’ve written about SpecifiedBy several times (eg: November 2012, January 2013), impressed by CEO Darren Lester’s energy and enthusiasm to use social media to facilitate the construction specification process. Having launched his site at Ecobuild and started two blogs last month (post), Darren is now aiming to use Twitter to help people get recommendations of …

After my November 2012 blog post about SpecifiedBy, I did a follow-up interview with Darren Lester for my ExtranetEvolution tech blog in February, and have since had a closer look at the site following its Beta launch at Ecobuild in London earlier this month. It is, of course, still very early days, but the Beta …